Elizabeth Cady Stanton

- was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, leading figure of the early
women's rights movement, human rights activist and one of the first leaders of
the woman's rights movement. She came from a privileged background and
decided early in life to fight for equal rights for women. In 1848, Stanton helped
organize the First Women’s Rights Convention often called the Seneca Falls
Convention. Stanton helped write the Declaration of Sentiments, a document
modeled after the Declaration of Independence that laid out what the rights of
American women should be and compared the women’s rights struggle to the
Founding Fathers’ fight for independence from the British. The Declaration of
Sentiments like men preventing them from owning land or earning wages, men
preventing them from voting, men preventing them from gaining a college
education and many more. She worked closely and reportedly as the brains
behind those works for over 50 years to win the women’s right to vote. Still, her
activism was not without controversy, which kept Stanton on the fringe of the
women’s suffrage movement later in life, though her efforts helped bring about
the eventual passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave all citizens the right to
vote. Stanton forever changed the social and political landscape of the United
States of America by succeeding in her work to guarantee rights for women and
slaves. And both women focused on women's suffrage, but Stanton also pushed
for equal rights for women overall. For that reason, Elizabeth Cady Stanton is
one of the women that we cannot forget because she do a lot in order for equality
of all especially the rights of women.